For the past 10 years UCT and the Compassionate Birth Project have been offering interactive self-care and best birth practice workshops for UCT medical students and staff at MOU’s. The dream is that maternity care givers who are less stressed, better self-regulated and equipped with the latest thinking around compassion internationally, the best quality of care becomes possible. We are deeply aware of the inhumane working and birthing conditions in state facilities and so have also been looking at transforming maternity wards with doulas, privacy measures, encouraging consent and singing!